Departments of aGenetics
bPediatrics
cDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
dDepartment of Medicine, and UAB Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Clinic, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
eResearch Centre of Ste-Justine Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal
fDepartment of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* Maria Descartes and Kitiwan Rojnueangnit: co-first authors.
Correspondence to Maria Descartes, MD, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kaul 210A 1720, 2nd AVE South, Birmingham, AL 35294-0024, USA Tel: +1 205 934 4973; fax: +1 205 975 6389; e-mail: [email protected]
Received November 12, 2013
Accepted February 4, 2014